NY Times biz editor Pollock: I’m not retiring, yet

Ellen Pollock

Lachlan Cartwight of Breaker looked into rumors that New York Times business editor Ellen Pollock is retiring.

Cartwright reports, “Pollock has presided over The New York Times biz day coverage for coming up on a decade, so when word started going around 620 Eighth Avenue that Pollock was close to retiring, we dialed and smiled the former Bloomberg editor and found reports of her retirement are greatly exaggerated.

“‘I am not retiring right now, but I’m not going to die at my desk,’ Pollock told Breaker, putting the latest bit of Wolfgang’s scuttlebutt to bed.

“If and when Pollock does decide to step down from her role, there are a number of successors waiting in the wings. Tech Editor Pui-Wing Tam and Deputy Business Editor Mohammed Hadi are well-liked by the masthead and the section’s reporters. We are reliably informed that Opinion Editor Kathleen Kingsbury, whose name had been linked to the role, is not in the mix.

“A spokesperson for The New York Times declined to comment.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.